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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Edit- hospital staff have no authority over police, and regardless of the circumstance asking the nurse to get out of the police car while under arrest would probably be some form of obstruction of justice
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Dunno about the US, but here, you're entitled to resist an unlawful arrest, so it wouldn't be I don't think.
I think the main point here is that the detective somehow thought he had the power to force medical staff to undertake medical procedures they didn't want to perform. What's next? "Doc, you'd better perform this appendectomy immediately or I'm throwing you in the clink."